Shelter in Place Executive Producer and Narrative Podcasts CEO Laura Joyce Davis has joined the Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP) as a full-time lecturer and Managing Editor of SSP’s student-produced podcasts, including the award-winning State of the Human. SSP is an arts program at Stanford University that teaches students how to use story craft and practices to create personal and social change.

At Narrative Podcasts, we’re here because stories are how we made sense of life: first through writing, then in podcasting, then in teaching podcasting to others. It took us two years and 200 episodes to master the elements necessary for an award-winning, top 1% global podcast: scriptwriting, voiceover, interviewing, audio editing, sound design, collaboration, production, and more. It took us the previous 20 years to figure out creative living: why we’re creating, and what keeps us creating when we face rejection, burnout, or imposter syndrome. At Narrative Podcasts, you’ll get all of this in just sixteen weeks. By telling our own stories, and helping others tell theirs, we believe that we can create a better normal for all of us.NarrativePodcasts.com

When 2020 knocked her down, host Laura Joyce Davis had a choice: reach out or retreat? Through quarantine, job loss, wildfires, and a cross-country move, her new podcast Shelter in Place became the way she and her family created community while rewriting life along the way. Through open-hearted memoir and authentic conversations, Season 1 chronicled 100 daily narrative episodes of living in a world forever changed. Season 2 followed the Davises on their pandemic Odyssey across a divided nation. In season 3, the Davises returned to Oakland and explored both personal and global questions about what makes a place home. Today Shelter in Place is an award-winning podcast in the top 1% globally. Though it began with the pandemic, it quickly became about something much bigger: how can we look unflinchingly at our world's brokenness, and reimagine a better life through creativity and community? Whether you've been with us from the beginning or are just joining us at episode 200, we're so glad to have you in the neighborhood.

Laura is the host and creator of Shelter in Place, a podcast about finding metaphorical shelter and our existential place in a post-pandemic world. She is the founding director of Kasama Collective, a podcast training and mentorship program to launch women and non-binary creatives into careers in audio storytelling.A Minneapolis native who now calls Oakland home, Laura Joyce Davis is an award-winning fiction writer, a Fulbright scholar, a WNYC Podcast Accelerator finalist, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She's been featured in interviews with The Pod Broads, Future Hindsight, @Sea, Emerging Form , Out There, and elsewhere. She’s also a mom of 3 young kids who believe that anything is possible if you have a cape, a crown, and a very good book (she doesn’t disagree). In past lives she’s been a collegiate running coach, a Big Ten athlete, an award-winning cappella singer, and a 3x blue ribbon winner at the 4-H county fair. Whether in Shelter in Place or in Laura’s short stories and novels, Laura's writing is grounded in the conviction that changing systems begins with changing ourselves.

Creative Writing Fulbright scholarship focused on anti-trafficking research and writing.

As head cross-country and track coach, I hire and manage assistant coaches, plan individualized workouts for athletes, handle team budgets, fund-raise, organize home meets, oh, and also teach a hiking class.

Read and edited manuscripts; assisted with distribution and marketing for titles to be published; helped organize and put on events for authors.

Planned events, coordinated guest speakers, designed and printed posters, and other duties.

As reader, evaluated submissions for inclusion in magazine. As editor, led student committee in selecting content; designed and printed magazine; planned magazine release party.